We individually handroll beads from recycling junk mail, magazine pages, old cards and cereal boxes. The colour of our jewellery is varied and determined by the actual paper we decide to use. There is no paint involved. The beads are sealed with clear varnish to make them shower resistant and gives them a shiny finish.

Wednesday, 7 July 2010

Recycled Cheerios box necklace

I started making paper bead jewellery as presents for my friends and quite quickly it has developed into a passion for recycling around the house. Now I have a growing collection of jewellery that can be purchased through www.folksy.com/shops/jayfa

As my children love to eat Cheerios I have made a necklace out of a used box.

52 comments:

this is so bright and colourful - love it! I use cereal boxes to make covers for my notebooks and I'm going to start using them for my gift tags soon too. http://www.milomade.co.uk/blog/2009/06/new-cereal-box-notebooks/

Hey smart blogger, Katie from Cheerios here. We love your idea so much that we shared your post with our community on Facebook. Check it out here http://www.facebook.com/CheeriosKeep up the great posts!

what do you roll them around to make the hole in the center for stringing?great idea by the way! i use cereal boxes to make japanese "koma". a triangular shaped hanging covered with ribbon. pretty at christmas time with tassels on all the corners.

Book 3 TEMARI TREASURES: Japanese Thread Balls and More $22.00More intermediate level projects using all 3 divisions - 8 more spectacular designs plus another wrapped ornament called the "koma" or spinning top. Tassels both informal and formal with dragonfly knot.

take a rectangle 3” x 9” and divide and mark it into 3 adjoining 3x3 squares. on the left most square, mark a diagonal from top left to bottom right. on the middle square, mark a diagonal from bottom left to top right. on the rightmost square mark a diagonal from top left to bottom right. score all the lines you marked. fold them and they will form a pyramidical shape. in the top of the pyramid form, glue on the inside a hanging string. seal the joins with tape or hot glue or whatever seems to work for you. start wrapping and glueing the ribbon from the hanging loop and follow the shape till it meets inself. repeat and repeat etc. if you want tassels on all the points, i glue them in first before sealing and wrapping the shape. the book makes it much simpler to understand with pictures.

To answer your questions here we go,hold the widest part of the triangle onto a knitting needle/stick, roll up to tip of the triangle then glue using PVA and hold till stuck. String all your beads on to cotton thread and dip them in your water based floor varnish, up and down a few times, don't take your time because the beads will soak up the varnish and they will take ages to dry. The key is to cut a perfect triangle and to roll it as symmetrical as you can. Very addictive, keeps my hands busy and stops me eating. Weight control as well!TTFN, Emma

I will be working with school children and think this would be a great activity for mothers day. Is there anything you recommend other than varnish to create the gloss finish? I am concerned about the toxicity of the varnish. TIA!

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